Human_It: Collecting, editing, analysing  Italian humanist’s letters (1400-1499)

Cristiano Amendola

Human_It: Collecting, editing, analysing Italian humanist’s letters (1400-1499)

Authors

Cristiano Amendola

University of Basilicata

https://orcid.org/0000-0001-9146-2224

Keywords:

Epistolography, Ars epistolandi, Ars dictaminis, Digital Humanities

Synopsis

Collana: Digital Humanities - DB, 2

Pubblicato: 2019

Abstract: Il progetto indaga la “Repubblica delle lettere” del XV secolo, per ricostruire i rapporti intellettuali tra i più importanti umanisti. Quella fitta rete di comunicazione e di condivisione delle conoscenze fu possibile grazie alla lingua latina e all'uso delle epistole.

Data-base tei-xml che fa uso del sistema ARACNE, creato dal dr. Alfredo Cosco per il CAB - Centro di Ateneo per le Biblioteche UNINA. Il lavoro è svolto nell’ambito del Dottorato di ricerca in Storia, Culture e Saperi dell’Europa mediterranea dall’Antichità all’Età contemporanea (Ciclo XXXIV), sotto la direzione del prof. Fulvio Delle Donne.

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Author Biography

Cristiano Amendola, University of Basilicata

Cristiano Amendola is a PhD student at Università della Basilicata, and an associate research fellow on the SKILLNET project (Utrecht University). He holds a BA in Modern Literature and an MA in Italian philology from Federico II University of Naples. In 2018 he received his PhD degree at Liège University, with a dissertation that focused on the rhetorical and literary strategies through which Italian scholars structured their epistolary communication during the 15^th and 16^thcenturies. During his PhD track, he was also a digital fellow for Early Modern Letters Online, the database of the Cultures of Knowledge project (Oxford University), and digital editor of Giorgio Vasari’s correspondence for the EpistolART project (Université de Liège).